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Pathways of Peace: The Philosophy and Sociology of Peace and Nonviolence by Romina Gurashi
RRP: $52.48Booksplease Price: $51.20This book explores the close interconnection that exists between sociological and philosophical scholarship in relation to peace studies. Through an examination of the thought of nine leading... -
Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life by Zena Hitz
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $35.24An invitation to readers from every walk of life to rediscover the impractical splendors of a life of learningIn an overloaded, superficial, technological world, in which almost everything and... -
Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life by Zena Hitz 9780691229195
RRP: $29.38Booksplease Price: $23.44An invitation to readers from every walk of life to rediscover the impractical splendors of a life of learningIn an overloaded, superficial, technological world, in which almost everything and... -
Selected Poems of Tudor Arghezi by Tudor Arghezi 9780691616933
RRP: $84.00Booksplease Price: $72.14Born in Bucharest of peasant stock, Tudor Arghezi (1880-1967) was awarded Romania's National Poetry Prize in 1946 and the State Prize for Poetry in 1956. The translators of this volume have... -
Gravity and Grace by Gustave Thibon
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $39.35Gravity and Grace was the first ever publication by the remarkable thinker and activist, Simone Weil. In it Gustave Thibon, the farmer to whom she had entrusted her notebooks before her untimely... -
Against Consolation by Robert Cording 9780967885698
RRP: $25.20Booksplease Price: $22.85The title poem takes its name from a passage by Simone Weil, "We must not weep so that we may not be comforted." But in this and other poems, Robert Cording offers a more hopeful vision of our... -
On Beauty and Being Just by Elaine Scarry
RRP: $37.78Booksplease Price: $28.77Have we become beauty-blind? For two decades or more in the humanities, various political arguments have been put forward against beauty: that it distracts us from more important issues; that it is... -
Thoreau's Axe: Distraction and Discipline in American Culture by Caleb Smith
RRP: $58.80Booksplease Price: $49.75How nineteenth-century "disciplines of attention" anticipated the contemporary concern with mindfulness and being "spiritual but not religious"Today, we're driven to distraction, our attention... -
Thoreau's Axe: Distraction and Discipline in American Culture Caleb Smith 9780691256023
RRP: $37.78Booksplease Price: $32.57How nineteenth-century "disciplines of attention" anticipated the contemporary concern with mindfulness and being "spiritual but not religious"Today, we're driven to distraction, our attention... -
The Book of Hulga by Rita Mae Reese 9780299308148
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $22.91The Book of Hulga speculates-with humor, tenderness, and a brutal precision-on a character that Flannery O'Connor envisioned but did not live long enough to write: "an angular intellectual proud... -
A Brief Guide to Spiritual Classics: From Dark Night of the Soul to The Power of Now by James M. Russell
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $8.42This very readable brief guide examines a wide range of spiritual writing that can be read for enjoyment or inspiration, including some books that come from beyond any religious tradition. While... -
Divinely Abused: A Philosophical Perspective on Job and His Kin by Nehama Verbin 9781441138569
Booksplease Price: $84.80Divinely Abused engages with the logical features of the experience of divine abuse and the religious difficulties to which it gives rise. Taking Job's trial as a test case, Verbin explores the... -
Spirituality and Theology: Essays in Honor of Diogenes Allen by Eric O. Springsted 9780664257415
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $39.82This collection of essays honors the work of Diogenes Allen, one of the leading theologians in the United States during the twentieth century. The list of contributors from the fields of theology,... -
The Murdochian Mind by Silvia Caprioglio Panizza 9781032272986
RRP: $102.88Booksplease Price: $97.50Iris Murdoch was a philosopher and novelist of extraordinary breadth and originality whose work defies simple categorisation. Her philosophical writing engages with an astonishingly wide range of... -
Understanding African Philosophy: A Cross-cultural Approach to Classical and Contemporary Issues Richard H. Bell, Jr. 9780415939379
RRP: $88.18Booksplease Price: $83.35Understanding African Philosophy serves as a critical guide to some of the most important issues in modern African philosophy. Richard Bell introduces readers to the complexity of Africa, the legacy... -
Love: Its Forms, Dimensions and Paradoxes by I. Dilman 9781349408344
Booksplease Price: $190.18The book is concerned with questions about love: questions about its many forms, strands and aspects, and the relation in which they stand to each other. It is concerned with the way different... -
Agamben's Philosophical Lineage by Adam Kotsko
RRP: $65.10Booksplease Price: $60.14One of the greatest challenges Agamben presents to his readers is the vast and often bewildering range of sources he draws upon in his work. Looking at figures including Michel Foucault, St Paul,... -
Iris Murdoch and Remorse: Past Forgiving? by Frances White 9783031430121
Booksplease Price: $210.08This exploration of the crucially important role played by remorse in Iris Murdoch's philosophical, theological, and political thinking identifies it as a critical concept in her moral psychology and... -
Edward Said on the Prospects of Peace in Palestine and Israel by J. Leblanc 9781349435647
Booksplease Price: $97.19John Randolph LeBlanc examines the political oeuvre of critic and activist Edward Said and finds that Said preferred "reconciliation" to segregation in Palestine/Israel. LeBlanc argues that Said's... -
Every Changing Shape by Elizabeth Jennings
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $31.48This collection studies writers and mystics, past and present, and considers from a Christian poet's perspective how religious or mystical experience informs the imagination. The text provides... -
Animal Ethics: The Basics Tony Miligan 9780415739368
RRP: $50.38Booksplease Price: $49.43Animal Ethics has long been a highly contested area with debates driven by unease about various forms of animal harm, from the use of animals in scientific research to the farming of animals for... -
I See Satan Fall Like Lightning by Andrew B Hammond Professor of French Language Literature and Civilization Rene Girard 9781570753190
RRP: $54.60Booksplease Price: $34.29Rene Girard holds up the gospels as mirrors that reveal our broken humanity, and shows that they also reflect a new reality that can make us whole. Like Simone Weil, Girard looks at the Bible as a... -
Philosophy for Understanding Theology, Second Edition by Diogenes Allen 9780664231804
RRP: $73.50Booksplease Price: $51.89Philosophy for Understanding Theology has become the classic text for exploring the relationship between philosophy and Christian theology. This new edition adds chapters on postmodernism and... -
Marxism After Marx by David McLellan 9781403997289
RRP: $136.48Booksplease Price: $128.18This fourth edition is an updated version of what has become the classic account of Twentieth-century Marxism. It includes new bibliographical information and sections covering developments since the... -
Choose Your Bearing: Édouard Glissant, Human Rights, and Decolonial Ethics by Benjamin P. Davis 9781399522441
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $29.23What do we in the West owe those who grow our food, sew our clothes and produce our electronics? And what have we always owed one another, but forgotten, avoided, or simply disregarded? Looking back... -
Ecce Monstrum: Georges Bataille and the Sacrifice of Form by Jeremy Biles 9780823227785
RRP: $157.50Booksplease Price: $155.34In the 1930s, Georges Bataille proclaimed a "ferociously religious" sensibility characterized by simultaneous ecstasy and horror. Ecce Monstrum investigates the content and implications of this... -
Thinking Against the Current: Literature and Political Resistance by Sybil Oldfield 9781845195946
Booksplease Price: $239.78This collection of literary/historical essays, written 1970-2010, covers political subjects as diverse as 17th Century Quaker persecution history, the social impact of Malthus, the self-emancipation... -
Thinking Against the Current: Literature and Political Resistance by Sybil Oldfield 9781845196899
Booksplease Price: $70.90This collection of literary/historical essays, written 1970-2010, covers political subjects as diverse as 17th Century Quaker persecution history, the social impact of Malthus, the self-emancipation... -
Effort and Grace: On the Spiritual Exercise of Philosophy by Simone Kotva 9781350113657
Booksplease Price: $235.47Philosophy and theology have long harboured contradictory views on spiritual practice. While philosophy advocates the therapeutic benefits of daily meditation, the theology of grace promotes an ideal... -
Effort and Grace: On the Spiritual Exercise of Philosophy by Simone Kotva 9781350194755
Booksplease Price: $71.06Philosophy and theology have long harboured contradictory views on spiritual practice. While philosophy advocates the therapeutic benefits of daily meditation, the theology of grace promotes an ideal... -
Democratic Theory and Technological Society Richard B. Day 9780873324489
RRP: $88.18Booksplease Price: $83.98What are the chief challenges posed to contemporary democracy by modern technology, and how can democratic theory best respond to, or at least reflect on, those challenges? Inhabiting the kind of... -
Christian Mystics: Their Lives and Legacies Throughout the Ages by Ursula King
Booksplease Price: $106.49Ursula King's Christian Mystics tells the story of sixty men and women whose mystical devotion to God transformed the times in which they lived and still affects our present-day search for spiritual... -
Degrees of Evil in Iris Murdoch's Fiction and Philosophy Daniel Read 9783031758409
Booksplease Price: $233.16This is the first survey of Murdoch's exploration of evil, addressing aesthetic, philosophical, political and theological perspectives. The study demonstrates how her work engages with currently... -
Maurice Blanchot on Poetry and Narrative: Ethics of the Image by Professor Kevin Hart 9781350349056
Booksplease Price: $190.20Blanchot and his writings on three major poets, Mallarmé, Hölderlin, and Char, provide a decisive new point of departure for English language criticism of his philosophical writings on narrative in... -
Ethics, Society and Politics: Themes from the Philosophy of Peter Winch by Michael Campbell 9783030407445
RRP: $251.98Booksplease Price: $235.45This volume is a reappraisal of the work of Peter Guy Winch (1926 -1997), one of the most important philosophers of the 20th Century. Winch faded into relative obscurity compared to his... -
Ethics, Society and Politics: Themes from the Philosophy of Peter Winch by Michael Campbell 9783030407414
RRP: $251.98Booksplease Price: $235.45This volume is a reappraisal of the work of Peter Guy Winch (1926 -1997), one of the most important philosophers of the 20th Century. Winch faded into relative obscurity compared to his... -
Primary Readings in Philosophy for Understanding Theology by Diogenes Allen 9780664252083
RRP: $77.70Booksplease Price: $56.39Knowledge of key philosophic terms or concepts is vital to the understanding of many issues in Christian theology. Diogenes Allen's book Philosophy for Understanding Theology explores such terms and... -
The Plague by Jacqueline Rose
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38What do you do with death and dying when they can no longer be pushed to the outer limits of your lived experience or dismissed from your conscious mind? How do you live with death or rather how do... -
The Gallows in the Grove: Civil Society in American Law by George W. Liebmann 9780275958862
Booksplease Price: $161.30Writing of the France of the 1930s, the late Simone Weil declared, The state has morally killed everything smaller than itself. Liebmann asserts that a comparable development has recently taken place... -
Selfies by Sylvie Weil
RRP: $25.20Booksplease Price: $18.14Taking selfies is not the exclusive preserve of millennials. In Selfies, the niece of French philosopher Simone Weil, also daughter of one of the most brilliant mathematicians of the 20th c., gives a...